Longspurs and Snow Buntings
Calcariidae
Calcariidae is a small family of passerine birds. It includes longspurs and snow buntings. There are six species in three genera worldwide, found mainly in North America and Eurasia. They are migratory and can live in a variety of habitats including grasslands, prairies, tundra, mountains, and beaches.
4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 6 known species
Snow and McKay's Buntings
genusPlectrophenax
Typical Longspurs
genusCalcarius
Thick-billed Longspurs
genusRhynchophanes
Calcarius × Plectrophenax
genushybridCalcarius × Plectrophenax
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 200991.